In a single month I have had two opportunities to punctuate a diatribe with the beginning phrase "at what point do you abandon your demagoguery and..."
A couple weeks ago our local news did a story on a food drive. Lots of well-meaning white people were collecting canned goods and monetary donations to be sent to somewhere in Africa. That's all fine, but it's essentially boring. It made the news because some area Catholic churches were telling their members to boycott the food drive because some of the money collected ends up buying condoms. Condoms that are carpet-bombed across the continent to stop the rampant spread of HIV.
To Mike, in conversation: At what point do you abandon your demagoguery and just do the right thing?
Tonight I was reading the latest Penny Arcade, where the lads spend some quality paragraphs extolling some silly third-party programs that make your Windows machine look and function like Mac OSX. One program, ObjectDock, re-creates the bouncy, magical OSX application launcher... complete with pastel shadowed icons.
To Matt, over IM: At what point do you abandon your demagoguery and just make the switch?
Anybody want to see me go for a triple?
